“As healers we have to receive the story of our fellow human beings with a compassionate heart, a heart that does not judge or condemn but recognizes how the stranger’s story connects with our own….Our most important question as healers is not, “What to say…

You Reading This, Be Ready   Starting here, what do you want to remember? How sunlight creeps along a shining floor? What scent of old wood hovers, what softened sour from outside fills the air?   Will you ever bring a better gift for the…

A couple of weeks ago in the SF Marathon, I tripped over a manhole cover and fell flat on my face, my hand, my shoulder and several other places. It was bloody and alarming to others, but seemed more surprising to me. I am not…

No one says it better than Christian Wiman, a poet who happens to be terminally ill: “If nature abhors a vacuum, Christ abhors a vagueness. If God is love, Christ is love for this one person, this one place, this one time-bound and time ravaged…